Live from the Plot...
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rsmith
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Very nice! After doing some research on them I'm torn now between chestnut and crabapple trees now! I may just get 4 of each and plant 2 apple and 2 chestnut around my plot and than 2 of each in the yard. Man I need like 250 more acres...
Spencie
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Willis Orchard suggested that I plant 2 Transcenant Crabapple Trees as pollinators for my 12 Arkansas Black and Red Rome Beauty Apple trees. I also have Pear (keiffer, bartlett and anjou) and Persimmon trees. I'm hoping some of the apple and pear trees start producing this year.
I am currently studying food plot ideas and just getting more confused. I have 3 one acre plots.
Plot 1) Roadside in the bottom...I need something tall to help screen it from poachers.
Plot 2 and 3) These plots are about 100 yards apart on the ridgetop. I want something that produces in November for at least one of them. Anything I plant grows great. Chicory has been the biggest draw but is hit so hard that it is decimated by mid-October. Brassicas grow great TOO. I may just do 1 plot in a clover/chicory mix and the other in brassicas.
I am open to suggestions but everyone has completely different ideas...lol
I am currently studying food plot ideas and just getting more confused. I have 3 one acre plots.
Plot 1) Roadside in the bottom...I need something tall to help screen it from poachers.
Plot 2 and 3) These plots are about 100 yards apart on the ridgetop. I want something that produces in November for at least one of them. Anything I plant grows great. Chicory has been the biggest draw but is hit so hard that it is decimated by mid-October. Brassicas grow great TOO. I may just do 1 plot in a clover/chicory mix and the other in brassicas.
I am open to suggestions but everyone has completely different ideas...lol
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at1010
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I am always going back and forth. I am going to plant some road screen this year as well. It will either be a pre mixed back or just EW.
As far as plots, can't go wrong with clover, then mix in brassicas, oats, winter wheat, winter rye. I think this is what I will do for the next several years. It just is easy to plant, and the deer will hit it at all different times!
Just a heads up I have some very old Apple trees out in the middle of my farm that still produce a few apples. We call it apple tree row and the deer hit it hard. We divided to make it longer and add trees we planted 4. They grew well all summer. Fall came the bucks rubed all the bark off them ate the leaves and broke them off! So this year we planted more and put a circle of fence around each tree to protect them and it worked. Also I might add the type of Apple doesn't matter deer like them all, I wait until the end of the season about middle of summer and anything left at Home Depot or meijers will be 1/2 price, the deer will never know you are cheap
Spencie
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I just ordered Chicory Plus (with Imperial Whitetail clover mixed in) from Whitetail Institute for one food plot. This will be planted in the Spring. I also ordered, from Heartland Wildlife, Buck Buster Extreme and Buck Forage Oats for the other plot on top to be planted in late summer. The Buck Buster Extreme is a mix of winter oats, winter rye, forage soybeans, hybrid turnips, forage rape and purple top turnips. I will start a thread and update throughout the summer and fall.
Now I need to come up with a plan for the bottom plot along the road.
Now I need to come up with a plan for the bottom plot along the road.
at1010
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exactly what I was thinking. I think Heartland makes a good one as well. If you are concerned about BOB seed you can mix your own as well. Mostly Sorghums, Milo, I know Egyptian wheat has been popular as well.